With the opening of my new practice, the focus is to provide supportive patient care for not only complex diseases and cancer, but also for overall health and vitality. Using my distinct viewpoint based on four decades of clinical experience, I hope to bridge the East/West modalities and offer individualized alternative treatments. While western medical treatment is often an essential for severe diseases, little is available for restorative care to reestablish the body’s balance, harmony and recovery. By adding Japanese acupuncture and Chinese herbal formulas, nutritional supplementation and diet as a complement to traditional medicine, the goal is to offer the best of both worlds.

My belief is: patients should be treated with a more global whole body approach to healing. Using alternative supportive treatments provides a framework to balance and strengthen the depleted and debilitated body, from treatments like chemo. Other patients recognize that they don’t feel well, and lack energy and vitality, but don’t know what’s wrong. Western Medicine is often left with treating only the most bothersome symptoms. Even after a diagnosis is made, patients sense they are moving down a path toward chronic health issues. But discovering the actual cause is often confusing and hidden from conventional approaches.

Less considered in the Western model of health care, is our exposure to environmental burdens. Pollutants and toxicants constantly present in our surroundings create genetic and metabolic dysfunction. It is these cellular changes that are the major causative factors in the development of many chronic diseases. Is it the mercury in the fish, or toxins from the coal powered electric plant? Is it the hidden pesticides and antibiotics in our food or the GMO grains we ingest? Perhaps it is the exhaust fumes as we bike or run along the roads, or drive in heavy traffic to work; or is it the solvents in our air fresheners, shampoos and common cleaning products?

Regardless, we are all exposed and experience a slow reduction in our immunity, our overall health and vitality. But while we are all subjected to these insults, searching for clues to their presence is possible and essential, and help is available. Without using pharmaceutical drugs, treatments can be accomplished by using specific dietary and nutritional supplementation and Chinese herbs.

In my experience, using this approach in an individualized program can mitigate and reduce the effects these exposures. Offering Alternative Therapies can lower our risk of chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and mental deterioration, and even aging; or provide supportive care for those in need.